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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Ranchers train livestock to connect a sound with a small electric shock. When an animal gets close to a virtual fence, its collar makes a warning sound.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
If the animal moves even closer to the fence, it receives a shock. In this way, livestock quickly learn to stay away from the fence.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Ranchers can change the virtual fence boundaries quickly by using a phone App or computer. And livestock quickly learn the new boundaries.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Strickland and his coworkers can use their phones even while on horseback to move cattle from one area to another.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
All they need to do is change the virtual fence lines. “And every 30 minutes, that line will move down; it will literally drive those cows down.”
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
It can be difficult to put them in areas such as rocky and hilly land, wet areas, or places with thick vegetation.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Over time, fences need to be fixed or new ones need to be built.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
When hurricane Ian hit Florida last year, it destroyed four houses and 45 kilometers of physical fence on the land where Strickland
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
works. But the cell towers for the virtual fence system kept working.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Physical fences can also harm wild animals by making it difficult for them to move within and to areas they need for survival.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a U.S-based environmental non-profit organization.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
It has partnered with cattle ranches in the states of Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado to research the effects of virtual fencing.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
William Burnidge is Deputy Director of TNC’s North America Regenerative Grazing Lands Strategy.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
He said that by changing fence boundaries, the systems prevent animals from eating too much vegetation within one area.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
This helps plants regenerate, or grow again.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
He added that virtual fences could help protect rare plants and areas near rivers and streams.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
They could also support conservation of wild animals, improve the health of animals and help ranch workers have a better quality of life.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Strickland works with partners at Florida Conservation Group and the University of Florida. With virtual fences, they can carefully control grazing.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
This helps them research the effects of grazing patterns on the growth of young cows, birth rates, and even the effects on nesting birds.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
They also plan to research how grazing can affect the release of carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
In Florida and other places, fields are sometimes burned to prepare them for future grazing. The burning releases carbon.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Virtual fences may help reduce burning by better controlling where and how long cattle graze.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
The GPS collars also let ranchers watch for animals that may be having problems.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
For example, if the system shows that a cow has not moved for many hours, it may be sick or injured.
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Virtual Fences for Cows Show Benefits
Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University studied how virtual fencing can prevent cows from grazing on recently burned land.
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